What an intense couple of days. Wednesday morning started with golf at Arrowtown. That blended into State of Origin at Malcomes. After discussing the meanling of life with Jerry, Malcome, Vince and Hughie I hit the sack at 4am. Hughie was later than that but he was up at 6am to watch bloody English Football on pay TV. Hughie woke me up for golf where … Continue reading May 25th, Remarks Ski Field
Al sent these pics of A-Basin through today – I have to ask him how many days skiing he has had and I’ll modify this post when I know. The Basin is going to be open until June 3rd and it looks like they’ve got enuf snow for it. Concrete Peak is due to open June 10th so hypothetically you could ski every day of … Continue reading A-Basin – May 22nd
I suppose I should do something on Sunday and when AJ’s call woke me up I couldn’t say no to a ride. After riding AJ and I had a few G & T’s at Shai’s place…. Then AJ’s woman (Jeff) cooked us a roast. Home around 1am – what a FANTASTIC day. And I don’t even like Sundays. I’ve got a feeling that Monday (my … Continue reading Sunday’s Activities
Friday arvo here and I took the dog up for a walk on Concrete Peak and I was keen to see where some of the bigger rocks are. I took a pic of the dog for my ‘online dating’ foto – I figure I can say that I’m a Maori with 2 legs and 3 dicks. Hahahaha. Continue reading Concrete Peak
I am a big fan of Monday’s. Easily my favourite day of the week but the last couple of Tuesday’s haven’t been too bad. Today was Ben Lomond a 1400m accent straight up from town. Another gorgeous day although once on the ridge line the wind was much much stronger than we expected. It was a 5hr round trip and enjoying a rum now I can tell you. … Continue reading Tuesday’s are growing on me
Tuesdays activity was walking the Greenstone Track (well part of it anyways). 5hr loop including lunch so not that far and no altitude gained but this is perhaps the prettiest walk I have done thus far. The walk started along the Greenstone River, then climbed a little bit to a mountain lake where we had lunch in the sun and then it looped back out … Continue reading Tuesdays are tough too
I’ve been back in Q-Town for just over a week now and its good to be back. After the 35hr journey from Denver to Queenstown I was picked up at the airport by AJ and we went directly to the course. From the course it was back to Malcome’s until around 1pm where I discovered I was an OP rum bottle lighter. This pace has kept up all … Continue reading Back in Q-Town
After a pretty lame day last year, cat skiing wasn’t a top priority. But, with 8 inches forecast, some new terrain which is open and being the last weekend of the season Al and I thought we’d give it another shot. AND IT WAS AWESOME!!!! My faith in cat skiing is back. Second run of the day was this bowl below – little bit of … Continue reading Last day of Cat Skiing
After a 5yr hiatus I am a single man again and working on getting my mojo back. I’ve been cleaning out some photos of the season and here are some party pics which I forgot to post earlier. We’ll start with New Years – there was a bottle of ’86 Don Perignon from Al and Jarisse’s cellar to bring in the New Year. 1986 is … Continue reading Party Time
These are pics taken from the day when we were scoping a hike off the backside (see the next post). A-Basin is one of my favourite places on the planet; it is laid back, the skiing is the steepest in Summit County, there are no slope Nazi’s, every 2nd person up there can kick my arse skiing, the views up there are the closest you … Continue reading Andy and Moc @ The Basin
For those of you not in the know…. A-Basin is a resort 5 minutes up the road from Keystone which is on the lift ticket. A-Basin is a bit higher than Keystone and opened in October and should be open for a couple of very slushy days in late May – perhaps even June (as it was last year). The 300 days a year is possible … Continue reading A-Basin Recon
Last day for Andy and Moc and along with Al we headed over to Loveland Ski Area to check it out. Pretty crappy day but the snow was amazing!!! Season is winding down and there was nobody there at all. Loveland Ski area goes on both sides of the Interstate. You can ski over it (there is a big tunnel for the road) or you … Continue reading Biggest Gap Jump in History
